[limpalong]

Okay! I really, really attempt to keep away from these political type discussions. But, this trips my trigger!

No, it doesn't matter the ethnicity! Jamie Lynn Spears... what, 16 years old... idol of our youth has a baby with her boyfriend. They're living together and will probably hatch some more. No consequences are seen or implied.

Governors, senators... the political leaders of our country are caught with prostitutes (of both genders) and many of those same politicians haven't been ushered from office or even seemed to lose face with their constituency.

So, the youth of today is "entitled" to be 'kids having kids"!! You hatch 'em... we'll support 'em for you!! The gansta's... the playa's... the males leave their semen in as many "drop zones" as they can. No jobs to support the kids they father. No responsibilty to marry the girl you impregnated and keep your zipper up. Nope!! The fathers will continue to have their low-rider cars... car stero systems that rattle windows two blocks away while showering neighborhoods and shopping centers with the four-letter words prevelant in the (so called) music they listen to. They are entitled to cell phones and i-pods and video games and plasma tv's... and pay cash for those while you and I put food in the mouths of the kids they've fathered.

The young ladies are tattoo'd and pierced before they are old enough to drive. They wear slacks/jeans with a waist low enough you can see razor burn. Don't bother to hide the stretch marks from having a kid at 16... go buy more clothes that will attract more unemployed "donors" because we can get a check each month from the social welfare system to support the babies, supplemented by free food stamps!

I'm on construction sites each and every day. I've heard story after story how a guy has to get at least 3 days a week work to be able to pay child support for kids with multiple women... none of whom know him as "Dad". At least they're working to provide (thanks to court orders), but I imagine the kids and their mothers are still picking up welfare checks on top of the child support payments.

Don't get me wrong! Each and every one of us can... and does... make mistakes as we travel the road of life. But, we came from a generation where we knew there would be consequences for our mistakes. Today... you can willfully make those same "mistakes" (in fact, it's your "right" to make those same mistakes) and someone else will pick up the tab.

Dang!!! Who got me riled up!!! I gotta get back to talking about golf clubs and birdies and bogeys. I could, probably, shoot 100 Saturday and not get as agitated as I've been the last 15 or 20 minutes!!! Sorry! I'll hush up and crawl back into my shell!!!!!!